TO A COUSIN GERMAN.

By Adeline Adams.

My Hans, you say, with self-applausive jest, "When Albert gave his Belgians Caesar's name— 'Bravest of all the Gauls'—surely 'twere shame The King, unthorough man, forgot the rest: "'Bravest because most far from all the best Provincial culture.'"2 Friend, if now your aim Be that fine thoroughness your people claim, Read on: "Such culture's wares, it stands confest, "Oft weaken minds." And Caesar's word was just. If men, bedeviled under culture's star, Have left Louvain a void where flames still hiss, Speared babes, and stamped the world's own Rose to dust, God grant that Belgium's soul may dwell afar Forever, from a culture such as this!